Ricardo Oliveira

Ricardo Oliveira is the Co-Founder and former CTO of ThousandEyes, a company that was acquired by Cisco in August 2020.12 He brings over 10 years of experience in computer networking to the company and played a crucial role in driving ThousandEyes' technical vision and innovation strategy.1

Educational Background

Ricardo received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he was awarded the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.1 During his doctoral studies, he developed Cyclops, an open platform for detecting attacks on Internet routing infrastructure.1

Career Highlights

• Co-founded ThousandEyes in 2010 with Mohit Lad, after meeting during their Ph.D. studies at UCLA.23
• Helped grow ThousandEyes to 400 employees with offices worldwide, serving hundreds of customers, including 80 of the Fortune 500 companies.4
• Led the company as CTO until its acquisition by Cisco in 2020.12
• Has published extensively in top international conferences and journals.1
• Lead author of several patents resulting from his work at AT&T Labs, Thomson, and Juniper Networks.1

Entrepreneurial Journey

Ricardo and his co-founder started ThousandEyes with a vision to help companies see the cloud, Internet, and SaaS as if they were their own environment.2 They recognized the growing importance of the Internet as the new enterprise backbone and developed a solution to provide visibility into complex Internet infrastructure.3

Personal Interests

Outside of his professional life, Ricardo is passionate about exploration and adventure. His interests include wildlife photography, skiing, diving, and kitesurfing.4

Recent Developments

As of March 20, 2024, Ricardo announced that he would be leaving ThousandEyes, with his last day being that Friday.5 This marks the end of his tenure with the company he co-founded and helped grow into a successful enterprise acquired by Cisco.